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What Drove You to Madness?
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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I had to parse an html table with a column of printed python dictionaries, the dicts wrapped a mixed delimiter list of SQL statements of various types.
It’s truly an abomination.
I’ve never had to use pythons AST module to parse data before…
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It was 900mb raw and compressed to 1.6mb after cleaning.
That’s how much junk data there was.
Combing through that log is the only way to prove and identify where a big was introduced so I can fix it.